dendritic

den-DRIT-ik

Branching like a tree — the pattern of river systems seen from above, ice crystals forming on a window, lightning splitting the sky, or the capillaries in a leaf. The shape that nature defaults to when distributing flow.
Etymology
Greek: dendritēs, of or pertaining to a tree, from dendron (tree).
 ice/snow Greek water
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